Skids Edinburgh 1978

[laurence28r]

This is the Art college gig at the transport hall in 1978....The Valves, The Monos and the Skids...as per the comment below from WP..I thought there was only one copy of this tape! the gig as far as I remember was on Richard Jobson's birthday!...nice close up of some of my old mates towards the end!

[wgpettigrew]

Here is the history to this video. The gig was run by the Edinburgh College of Art and was in the Transport Hall in Annandale Street. We were putting together a training video on how to put on a gig. The final video included interviews with the Art College Entertainments. It was shot on an old open reel, black and white Panasonic Recorder I blagged from the School of Community Studies, hence the crap quality. There were 3 bands that night: The Valves, The Monos (or they could have been the solos

[feeklestng]

99% I was there and three bands played on the night...Skids, Valves and Rezillos...hope to get that confirmed this weekend when the Skids play at the Alhambra...

Fu

[thepiper14]

picture may be a bit iffy but the sound is 5 star . this shows that the skids were always great live , even from the early days .

[bigchrisoioi]

happy days...made me smile tonight......best punk band ever...punks not dead!!!!

[did077]

oh shit i was there in 78! just before reading festival

[colinmcb]

Came through from Paisley to see The Skids in 78 at Tifanny's. Got a lift back in a Tennants Brewery truck at 3am.

Happy days!

[jealouscardinal]

RIGHT ON! In '78 I was in a record store where a worker started blaring "Of One's Skin" on the stereo and it was the first awesome jolt of punk for this grade 8'er. Too bad the whole song's not here but cool nonetheless this video exists.

[chrispools]

What an absolute fucking gem!!!!! This shit is RARE man. AWSOME.

[blade0954]

ashamed to say i forgot about this song,so i had a look in my box of old punk records,and yes,its there,in white vynil,with a picture of a stags ass on the cover!!!

[smid27]

arf,just checked clive fords notes and he says this is from a union hall in leith which was on 11th may 78,aparently a few bands played that night

[smid27]

arf,it was at clouds sure this was from stiff/chiswick challenge feb 24th 78

[runway27r]

4 of 7

[ArthurAxident]

Yeah guilty as charged a great honour to have been part of the Gathering

Arf

[germo66]

Roll on next year. Great night on Saturday, thanks for you part.

Germo

[ArthurAxident]

Saw The Skids about 7 or 8 times around this period they were usuallly the support to the "bigger" bands who played in Edinburgh ie Stranglers etc I probably was at this and it's either Clouds Discotheque the other venue that was about this size in Edinburgh was Tiffany's in St Stephens St but i'd plump for Clouds at Tollcross

Arf

[germo66]

Is that Axident as is the TV Stars support on Saturday ?

[superhuxx]

great to hear charles again rip s adamson

[robholt77]

Great band. Adamson went on to be lead singer of big Country,Jobson - Armoury Show. RIP Stuart Adamson

[superhuxx]

great to hear charles again rip s adamson

[chosenfewradio]

Great!!!!

[A3oert]

Great performance.

The quality doesn't matter. Whenever it is The Skids it worth watching!!!

R.I.P. Stuart Adamson

[jhonnygreen]

I'm in the crowd somewhere

[germo66]

Great to hear from you. What are your memories of the gig ?

[jhonnygreen]

a few years ago but i remember they played Working for the yankee dollar and the old black and white war film played in the background

[shootingscreenwriter]

That would have been on the Days in Europa tour late 1979. This footage is much earlier. Who filmed it and how was it so badly damaged?